So, since the last time I counted, I've added 2,835 words to my world design document, bringing it to 33% done. That percentage is based upon a rough word count estimate I'd made at the beginning of writing. However, the number of categories with substantial entries: 11. Total number of categories required for document: 72. So, that doesn't really ( Read more... )

Went to The Hangover with my little sister and her boy friend. She's moving to Hollywood on Monday to attend a performing arts school for a degree in film acting. Hence, for the love of my flesh and blood kin, I hung on through immensely gratuitous stupidity. It had some caper elements that were actually pretty well thought out ... I just don't ( Read more... )

Two hours ago I set out to discover the average area of the human eye ball that is exposed to light/oxygen. I've since read well over 15 Wikipedia articles related to the topic I'm actually writing into my world design/magic system. And I still haven't discovered the measurements I was looking for. The moral of the story is "You don't know what you ( Read more... )

I promised on Monday (ish ... the problem with being a bohemian-working-student type is that the standard division between days gets muddled) that you'd have my thoughts on James Joyce's The Dead from Dubliners on Tuesday. I failed to produce such a blog yesterday. Accept my apologies and suggest suitable punishments in the comments, if you please ( Read more... )

varkat is running a really cool contest to win cool stuff over at her blog. Go comment! This could be a lot of fun.

Also, I've written 900 words today and am trying to get 1,300 more before I leave to have lunch with my sister around 2:00. Creation myths, even when they're parallel to your own, are actually kind of tricky to write. Creation myths are ( Read more... )

1226 new words tonight; 3558 total world design words = 11% done!

Hacked at this world's magic system tonight. It's kind of exciting--no one can be quite an island unto themselves and get too many things done, and I think it will end up creating a good bit of interpersonal conflict to have to do a lot of magic in teams of very different people. I'm ( Read more... )